Cambridge Physics 0625, Chemistry 0620 and Mathematics 0580, taught one-to-one across the two IGCSE years — plus Additional Mathematics 0606 for students heading to A Level or an engineering track.
Mira Road East · Bhayandar East · Bhayandar West · or online
An Indian board paper rewards a student who has covered the syllabus. A Cambridge paper rewards a student who can apply it to something they have not seen, explain it in clear English, and handle the experimental side in writing. The content is not harder than ICSE — in several places it is lighter — but the question style is genuinely different, and a student moved from an Indian board into IGCSE usually loses marks for a term before adjusting.
The three decisions that actually shape an IGCSE result are made in school, not in the exam hall: Core or Extended, Paper 5 or Paper 6 for the practical, and whether to add 0606. Those are worth thinking about carefully, so they are on this page rather than buried.
Codes and paper structures below are from the current Cambridge syllabus documents.
Six topics: Motion, forces and energy; Thermal physics; Waves; Electricity and magnetism; Nuclear physics; Space physics.
Core sits Paper 1 (MCQ, 45 min, 40 marks), Paper 3 (Theory, 1 h 15, 80 marks) and one practical paper.
Extended sits Paper 2 (MCQ, 45 min) and Paper 4 (Theory, 1 h 15, 80 marks) and one practical paper.
Practical: Paper 5 is a real lab test, 1 h 15; Paper 6 is Alternative to Practical, 1 hour. The school chooses.
Twelve topics: States of matter; Atoms, elements and compounds; Stoichiometry; Electrochemistry; Chemical energetics; Chemical reactions; Acids, bases and salts; The Periodic Table; Metals; Chemistry of the environment; Organic chemistry; Experimental techniques and chemical analysis.
Same paper structure as Physics — Core takes Papers 1 and 3, Extended takes Papers 2 and 4, and everyone takes Paper 5 or Paper 6.
Nine topics: Number; Algebra and graphs; Coordinate geometry; Geometry; Mensuration; Trigonometry; Transformations and vectors; Probability; Statistics.
Core: Paper 1 non-calculator (1 h 30, 80 marks) and Paper 3 calculator (1 h 30, 80 marks).
Extended: Paper 2 non-calculator (2 h, 100 marks) and Paper 4 calculator (2 h, 100 marks).
The non-calculator paper is half the grade and is the single most under-practised thing in IGCSE Maths.
A separate qualification taken alongside 0580 Extended, not instead of it. Single tier, grades A* to E.
Two papers of two hours and 80 marks each; Paper 1 non-calculator, Paper 2 calculator.
Content: functions, quadratics, polynomials, logarithms and exponentials, straight lines, circles, circular measure, trigonometry, permutations and combinations, series, vectors and calculus.
This is where most IGCSE maths tutoring demand actually sits, and it is a real step up.
Same subject, two tiers, different papers. This is usually settled in Grade 10 and it cannot be undone afterwards.
| Core | Extended | |
|---|---|---|
| Content | The Core syllabus | Core plus the Supplement |
| Physics / Chemistry papers | Paper 1 + Paper 3 + practical | Paper 2 + Paper 4 + practical |
| Maths papers | Paper 1 + Paper 3 | Paper 2 + Paper 4 |
| Grades available in Maths | C to G | A* to E |
| Intended for | Students expected to reach grade D or below | Students expected to reach grade C or above |
Built around Cambridge's own material rather than around an Indian guide book.
Home classes in Mira Road East, Bhayandar East and Bhayandar West, and online for students elsewhere in India or abroad — IGCSE is a curriculum I teach a lot of online, since Cambridge schools are scattered.
IGCSE is normally taught across Grade 9 and Grade 10 with exams at the end of Grade 10. Cambridge runs June and November series worldwide, and a March series specifically for India — so most Indian Cambridge schools enter for March or May/June. Confirm which series your school uses before we plan the year, because it moves the finish line by two months.
If your child is on the IB MYP instead, that is on the IB MYP tuition page.
0625 Physics, 0620 Chemistry and 0580 Mathematics — the A*–G graded versions. The 9–1 numbered variants (0972, 0971, 0980) were introduced for the UK grading system and are used in a different Cambridge administrative zone. Check your school's entry codes if you want to be certain; the teaching is the same either way.
Extended, unless there is a clear reason not to. A Core entry caps the grade at C, which closes doors at A Level and at university application time. Cambridge deliberately overlaps the tiers at C, D and E so a mis-tiered student is not destroyed, but the ceiling is real. If your child is genuinely struggling, the honest answer is to work at it in Grade 9 rather than to drop the tier in Grade 10.
If your child is heading for A Level Maths, engineering or any quantitative degree, yes — 0606 covers calculus, logarithms, series and vectors, and it makes the jump to AS Level far less brutal. It is a real step up from 0580 and it needs its own class time, not leftover time. If your child is not continuing with mathematics, skip it.
Your school decides, not you. What matters is that Paper 6, Alternative to Practical, is not the easy option — it is a written paper about experiments, testing exactly the same skills, and it demands precise description of method, variables and sources of error. Students assume it is the soft choice and under-prepare. Both are worth 20% of the grade.
Fees depend on the class, how many subjects you want and how many classes a week we run. All the material — notes, worksheets, question banks and the weekly marked test — is included, so the number I quote is the number you pay. Call or WhatsApp on 79774 75848 with your child's class, board and subjects and I will give you the exact figure.
Yes, and it is a real class on a real chapter — not a sales meeting. Tell me what your child is stuck on and we will do exactly that. At the end you will know whether my teaching suits your child, which is the only question worth answering.
0625, 0620, 0580 or 0606 — and which topic. The demo class is free and it is a real class on that topic.
